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Feminine Hygiene Goes Green| Wellness magazine

Feminine Hygiene Goes Green

While not every woman can afford to purchase a hybrid car, more women than ever are aware that their monthly feminine hygiene choice can also create a positive eco-footprint.

Secret Island Herb That Fights Anxiety, Stress & Panic Attacks| Wellness Magazine

Secret Island Herb That Fights Anxiety, Stress & Panic Attacks

It rips through your body like a buzz saw, tensing every nerve, pushing your adrenal glands into overdrive and robbing precious years from your life. Stress is no joke. Can you help yourself by simply spraying a few mists of natural spray under your tongue, and sooth your stress and anxiety in no time? Yes, you can.

How to Create Smile-Friendly Drinks| Wellness magazine

How to Create Smile-Friendly Drinks

Drink to your health' takes on new meaning. Cocktails infused with medicinal ingredients can improve immunity and offer a tasty tonic for your teeth, according to recent studies.

Lower the Anxiety Associated With Change | Wellness magazine

Lower the Anxiety Associated With Change: Recognizing the Positives and Eliminating the Negatives

In your business and personal life, it is likely there have been situations when you have asked yourself,"Why are there times when I experience
anxiety relative to a change I am facing?" To answer this question, let’s start by thinking of your replies to the few simple questions.

Curcumin May Protect Premature Infants' Lungs | Wellness magazine

Curcumin May Protect Premature Infants' Lungs

Turmeric, a key ingredient in spicy curry dishes, has long been known to have medicinal values. Now new research finds a substance in turmeric, curcumin, may provide lasting protection against potentially deadly lung damage in premature infants.

Cinnamon Surprising super spice:

Numerous studies show that cinnamon regulates blood sugar, making it a great choice for diabetics and hypoglycemics alike. It also reduces LDL cholesterol levels.

June is Dairy Month | Wellness magazine

Learn about dairy cows and milk that goes anywhere, anytime!

June is Dairy Month…serving for more than 70 years as a reminder of the importance of getting more protein- and calcium-rich dairy products into the family's diet – especially for children. But parents often wonder how to do that when they're on the go, since dairy products need to remain chilled. 

Beer, Thirst Quenching AND Cholesterol Lowering

Beer, if consumed in moderation, has many health benefits, including the obvious: stress reduction.  It, like other alcoholic beverages, has been linked to cleaner arteries as well.

Acid free coffee| Wellness magazine

Coffee is it good for you. Acid free coffee even better!

Some people aren’t able to drink coffee because it bothers their stomach, but is it really the acid?The high acid amount found in coffee is one the largest contributing factors the high increase of acid related diseases in our society. You may be saying, “I had no idea that there was acid in my coffee!” Most people do not know.

Texting for Health | Wellness magazine

Texting for Health

According to the Nielsen consumer research group, teens receive an average of 3,417 text messages per month (that’s 114 texts per day!).  Couple this with CDC’s report that high school students’ consumption of fruit and vegetables is, on average, 1.2 times per day and it makes sense to start using text messages to inform teens about health.

The power of Kona coffee | Wellness magazine

Help your body be healthy again {part 4} The power of Kona Coffee

What’s so special about Kona coffee? Is it the flavor? Or is it something else?The dark, rich volcanic soil, temperate climate, morning sun, and afternoon showers make a wonderful environment for growing coffee.  So far, so good, but this is just the beginning...

Spirulina - The Amazing Superfood You've Never Heard Of| Wellness Magazine

Understand your super foods { part 2} Spirulina - The Amazing Superfood You've Never Heard Of

Imagine a plant that can nourish your body by providing most of the protein you need to live, help prevent the annoying sniffling and sneezing of allergies, reinforce your immune system, help you control high blood pressure and cholesterol and help protect you from cancer. Does such a “super food” exist?

5 wellness tips | Wellness magazine

5 wellness tips for perfect health

It's as easy as 1-2-3! You can do anything! Here are just a few tips on how to get a few steps closer to reaching your perfect health.

Be healthy again | Wellness magazine

Help your body be healthy again {Part 3 - Antioxidants} The color of health

Antioxidants are present in foods as vitamins, minerals, carotenoids, and polyphenols. Antioxidant-rich foods include, fruits, vegetables, black and green tea, and chocolate. Everyone has heard about antioxidants, but what do they really do and why are they good for us ?

Be healthy again | Wellness magazine

Help your body be healthy again {Part 2}

Once your kids head back to the classroom and winter weather on the corner, they’ll be bringing home more than homework, additional pounds, cold and germs are sure to fallow. Start improves their menu and builds their immune systems now to keep flu bouts and extra pounds to a minimum.

The Power of Peanut Butter

Healthy Snacking With the Power of Peanut Butter

Did you know that the average American consumes more than six pounds of peanuts and peanut butter products each year and that by the time the average child graduates high school they will eat more then 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Now aren’t those some interesting fun facts. So its clear, America is nuts about peanut butter!

Josiah’s Oil’s Organic Migraine Relief| Wellness magazine

Organic Migraine Relief

Millions of Americans suffer from migraine headaches, which are so painful that they can rob you of quality of life. Migraine symptoms include a pounding headache, nausea, vomiting, and light sensitivity. Thankfully, there is a natural solution for migraine sufferers in essential oils, which work to relieve migraine pain in three key ways.

Help your body be healthy again |Wellness magazine

Help your body be healthy again {Part 1 Energy}

Being tired all the time is not a normal part of aging or modern life, no matter what you’ve been told. If you have tried a cup of coffee, soft drinks or processed sugar you know the effect is temporary at best and the side effects are often worse than the brain fog. You need real, healthy energy.

The power of Herbal Medicine

The secret of Herbal Medicine

Our bodies are complex and can respond to many sources of energy, but our energy needs are much more complex than what is available at our local convenience market. Once again it is time to turn to nature and understand the secret of Herbal Medicine.

The power of magnesium | Welness Magazine

The power of magnesium

Magnesium is a mineral that's crucial to the body's function. Everyone burns magnesium for fueling the brain, muscles, nervous system, and organs and is essential for more than 300 enzymatic processes. When magnesium pills are taken orally, they have to go through the digestive process and then try to find the place in the body where it is needed.

Traveling Abroad | Wellness magazine

Traveling Abroad? Make Sure Plans Include Trip to the Doctor

Saint Louis University Travel Health Expert Offers Five Tips for a Healthy Vacation. If you’re one of the millions of Americans who will travel abroad this summer, make sure your plans include a trip to the doctor, says H. Thomas Johnson, M.D., a Saint Louis University family physician.

Beat the blues with banana

Who knew there are so many advantages to bananas? Very healthy and important to our daily diet, bananas can even make you feel better. Banana health benefits are comparable to any other type of fruit. In fact, bananas have several positive benefits that many other fruits do not have.

The Effects of Cocoa on Heart Health

The flavonoids found in dark chocolate and cocoa have superior antioxidant properties as well as other properties that benefit the heart and health in general. In this study, following the intake of cocoa, study participants...

Nature's Purifying Essentials

Spring is the season for invigoration. It life’s work is weighing you down, allow nature’s energizer to lift you up. Lemon (Citrus limon) is a perfect pick-me-up essential oil believed to clear the mind and elevate the spirit. 

Fish Oil May Reduce the Risk for Colorectal Cancer

A colonoscopy-based case-control study that included 3,166 polyp-free control subjects, 1,597 adenomatous polyp cases, and 544 hyperplastic polyp cases revealed that dietary omega-3 fatty acid (typically found in fish) intake reduced production of prostaglandin E2 (an inflammatory agent) production. Higher intake Omega-3...

Sex... It’s What the Doctor Prescribed

Here’s one more reason to have sex. Recent studies have shown that regular sexual activity can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.